This winter. These, in essence, help to prevent the contamination or water that they use to wet down the contaminated ash as they excavate. It helps to contain that material within the property so it doesnt come out. Reporter those also surround the burned out firestation 5 in the Fountain Grove community. The material you see here is also an absorbent helping to keep contaminants from washing into storm drains. The storm is also filling up the local creeks and rivers. Its one of the reasons Sonoma County issued a Flash Flood Watch for areas devastated by the fire three months ago today. Were always concerned. Im a contractor. Ive been watching the fire stuff. A lot of my friends lost their homes. Everybody is very nervous right now. Reporter federal and local cleanup crews continue to work through the rain, careful not to tear off any part of the mountainside that might trigger a slide down below. And heres an example of that. Some of these walls and foundations are still up. The army
Bay area. Add water and it is worse. You shouldnt be on the roadways if you dont have to be. Fire burn zones is a big concern with the possibility of mudslides. We will keep heavy rain fall moving into sonoma. Napa at 6 21. Heavier rain fall to the peninsula. Oakland at 6 38. More moderate and heavier pockets. Continuing through 6 42. More details on the Flash Flood Watch coming up at 6 19 tonight. See you then, thank you, jeff. As you can imagine, a lot of rainrelated car crashes. Including this one, thats highway 4 there. Crash bad enough to leave the driver seriously hurt and thats not the only rainrelated runin today. Chp there is investigating a deadly crash, robert. Reporter thats right. In the midst of a very hectic day on the peninsula today. We are here near page mill road where a man died in a crash today. We are looking at tire skid marks. Reporter there was a lot of stop and go traffic in the rain along the always active stretch of cage mill road near coyote hill road. But
Past that and in the back up, dixon line road, get over to 680. That is moving in the southbound direction. The commute moves toward 880. Stick to southbound 680. West 237, thats already starting to jam up because we dont typically see that here. A lot of folks here. Milpitas, this will be flooding this area. That will be a problem for folks heading toward sunniville. Thats the only issue for the morning. This is going to continue for a while. Kris, what have you learned out there . Reporter hi, there. You have the hits and runs on the crash. It is a horrific scene. We have officer Janine Reynolds here. The conditions may have contributed to how folks reacted to the wrong way driver. When theres a wet roadway, it picks up mist. That could be a contributing factor. Driving the wrong way on the freeway is always a danger and thats the major contributing factor to this collision. Reporter folks give themselves more time to react in this situation and other situations. We recommend in the
A role in this . Reporter good morning to you, kris and laura. A witness we spoke to definitely thinks the wet pafbt here played a factor. Chp tells us theyre still investigating but says the rain might have been a role played a role in this accident. You can see what this accident looked like just after it happened during the morning commute. From a witnesss cell phone video. See the small Yellow School bus collided headon with a white pickup truck. On board that bus, a driver who is 34 weeks pregnant and seven children all of them on theyre way to school. The children and driver were taken to local hospitals, primarily as a precaution and to make sure the baby wasnt hurt. All of them are expected to be okay. There were three other vehicles involved, two pickups and a vw bug. Two people from those vehicles suffered serious injuries. One a broken leg and the other internal injuries, according to chp. A witness who heard the crash believed it was the vw bug that hi hydroplaned into the
Everyone. Rob has more highlights from tonights celebration. Reporter fantastic. This parade stretched from market to columbus. This area at one point was filled with people. If you look over my shoulder theyre just now breaking down the facilities from if live broadcast. The live broadcast. Chinese tradition and cultural were everywhere. This year michelle yo was the grand marshal. Its like an explosion of joy. It was fantastic. This some how we welcome the new year with love and hap iness. Reporter many families were taking the day to enjoy it all. This is just something we do every year. Its a whole dame we leave early in day. We leave early in the morning. Reporter there were attractions indeluged dragons including the dragons. They were getting up close and personal with spectators. Fans love the dragon. Its amazing and its our first year of it parade. Reporter others displayed the lights and charm of chinese cullker culture. I know inmayor as a percentinal friend so its good to p